Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take Bengasi, the capital of Cyrenaica, Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie, in charge on the battlefield, had to push out Germany's General Erwin Rommel. All last week Rommel had prepared to make a stand at Bengasi with what was left of his armored forces. Apparently changing his mind, or afraid of losing valuable armored units, he abandoned the town, hit southward to Agedabia, 95 miles from Bengasi. Here he waited for the remainder of his armored forces to come in from Mechili farther north. Fighting a rear-guard action for both his units were Italy's desert...
...York Times Correspondent Joseph M. Levy wrote from Cairo last week: "The British armored forces and infantry units have broken the Axis line west of el-Gazála and have sent the Germans reeling backward in headlong retreat." Other reports also had General Erwin Rommel's Army "reeling backward." BBC claimed this week that Rommel was abandoning Bengasi and retreating towards Tripoli...
...second lesson concerned recovery. The decisive factor in last week's fighting was the rapidity and efficiency of German field supply, and particularly repair. It was this which had made it possible for General Erwin Rommel to recover so quickly from the first pounding his forces took, then to seize the initiative before the British had caught their second wind...
...Banjo Eyes" is the musical comedy version of that slap-happy farce of several seasons ago, "Three Men on a Horse," Eddie Cantor, whom most of us have never seen on the stage, hoofs his way through the part of Erwin Trowbridge, a greeting-card rhyme writer who dreams hot tips about horse races. He falls into the hands of a gambler, Lionel Stander, who Jocks him in a hotel apartment and makes him dream up tips. Then there is Erwin's wife, Stander's moll, a lot of snappy lines, one or two good songs, and Banjo Eyes...
Drifting in on a light westerly breeze yesterday, George Nichols, Jr. '43 and Daye Noyes '44 skippered their 12-foot Tech dinghies over the finish line on the Charles River basin to capture second place, three points behind favored Dartmouth, in the Erwin H. Schell Trophy Race...